Overall-pocket.



Patented Apr. 8, 1919.

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DAVID S. CARTER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOB 'IO LARNED, CARTER & COMPANY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION 01! MICHIGAN.

OVERALL-POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 8, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID S. CARTER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overall-Pockets, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to pockets for overalls or the like and refers more particularly to a pocket to receive a rule or other tool or tools.

Among the objects of the invention are to provide a pocket of the character above referred to which will receive a rule or rules or other articles of different length and will prevent the accidental displacement of the article from the pocket; to so construct and arrange the pocket that free access can be had to the articles within the pockets for withdrawing the same; to provide a con struction in which the rear side of the pocket is inclined so as to automaticallv guide the article into a position where it will be locked from displacement when inserted in the pocket: and in general to provide a new and improved pocket construction.

The invention also resides in such other details of construction as will more fully hereinafter appear.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a pocket embod ing mv invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing an article being in erted in the pocket;

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the line wm of Fig. 1.

In overalls or other garments pocltets are often provided for re eiving a measuring rule or other article. When the person wearing th gar ent bends o er or assumes positions other than an upright position. the rule or other article is often lost from the pocket, and the present invention particnlarlv contemplates a simple and efiicient arrangement wherehv the rule or other article will be looked from accidental di placement without interfering with convenient access of the article to be used.

In the particular construction shown in the drawings, A designates the overall to which the pocket B is attached, this pocket being sewed to the garment by stitching C, C, 2 and C, the latter seam, however, extending but a portion of the way of the side I) and eing preferably formed integral with the side seam E which connects the front and rear sections E and E of the overalls. From the upper end of the seam G the edge G of the pocket is not connected to the garment, thus leaving an opening H through which the rule or other article can be inserted in the manner shown in Fig. 2.

It will be noticed that the seam C is inclined upwardly toward the opening H, while the seam C tapers from the top to the bottom toward the seam C thus giving an inclined side J to the pocket. This inclined arrangement of the side of the pocket opposite the openin through which the article is inserted, provi es a material advantage, in that as the article such as the rule K 1s inserted in the pocket its lower. edge K will ride against the edge J and be forced toward the seam C This will automatically throw the upper end K of the article back away from the openin and beneath the locking edge formed by t is seam C. The article will therefore be held from accidental displacement irrespective of its length, since the inclined wall J will guide it up against the locking seam, rather than toward the opening.

However the inclined relation of the edge G gives a relatively wide 0 ening through which access can be had to tlie tool or other article for removing the same from the ocket. The invention in its broader aspects is not limited to the particular location of the pocket and various other changes in the details of construction can be made within the scope of my invention.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a garment, a pocket comprising a pocket member having a rear edge inclined from the vertical line, a front edge arranged in substantially a vertical line, and a completely closed top portion extending but a portion of the way from the rear edge to the plane of the front edge, said closed top portion being arranged at substantially right angles to said rear edge, there being an opening portion positioned between the front end of the upper edge and the upper end of the front edge and diagonally inclined throughout its extent.

2. In a garment, the combinatiomwith two sections united by a substantially verticei seam, of a pocket having one edge stitched into said seam, openin Lpontion inclining upward from the stitche edgexaaway from said seam, and the remainder of the periphery of the pocket being stitched throughout "reardge inclined relatively to said seam;

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

DANZIDwS. CARTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for flvetcentsfeaohnwi sdlressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington. (2."

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